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Education
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2024 - Present Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Canada.- Area: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
- Supervisor(s): Parvin Mousavi & Purang Abolmaesumi.
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2022 - 2024 Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Canada.- Area: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
- Thesis: Towards a Reliable Deep Learning Framework for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis using Ultrasound
- Advisor: Parvin Mousavi
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2016 - 2021 Honours Bachelor of Science (H.B.Sc.)
University of Toronto - Area: Computer Science & Philosophy
Research and Industry Experience
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2024 - Present Doctoral Researcher
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Canada.
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.- Trustworthy AI for Medical Image Analysis with Large Vision-Language and Reasoning Models
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2022 - 2024 Graduate Research Assistant
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Canada.
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.- Reliable Prostate Cancer Detection using Uncertainty-Aware Self-Supervised Learning
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2021 - 2022 Data Scientist
Flinks, Montréal, Canada. - Financial Transaction Categorization using Deep Learning and Language Models
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Summer 2021 Research Intern
University of Toronto - Automated Code Repair with Deep Learning and Language Models
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2020 - 2021 Research Assistant
University of Toronto - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Teaching Experience
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2023 - Present Teaching Assistant
Queen's University - Algorithms I (Winter 2026, Winter 2024)
- Medical Imaging and Machine Learning (Fall 2025)
- Introduction to Programming for Biomedical Sciences (Summer 2025)
- Human-Computer Interaction (Winter 2025)
- Neural & Genetic Computing (Fall 2024, Fall 2023)
- Introduction to Data Analytics (Winter 2023)
Honors and Awards
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Awards.
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Vector Institute Research Grant II (2024 - 2028)
Awarded to support PhD research in AI for Medical Imaging (value: $6,000 per year).
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Bruce Mitchell Research Fellowship (2024 - 2028)
Awarded to outstanding PhD candidates at Queen's University (value: $35,000 per year).
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Vector Institute Research Grant I (2023)
Awarded to support research in AI/ML at the Vector Institute (value: $4,000).
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Robert Sutherland Fellowship (2022)
Awarded to distinguished students at Queen's belonging to a minority group (value: $15,000).
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NSERC MediCREATE Training Award (2022)
Awarded to students in the NSERC CREATE training program in medical informatics.
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University of Toronto Undergraduate Research Grant (2021)
Awarded to students in good academic standing to present at a conference (value: $1,000).
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University of Toronto Entrance Award (2016)
Awarded to distinguished students admitted into the Faculty of Arts & Science (value: $3,000).
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Vector Institute Research Grant II (2024 - 2028)
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Media.
- PhD thesis work on AI-assisted Prostate Cancer Detection was featured in the BetaKit Special Issue on "Making AI Work Beyond the Lab" .
Academic Service
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Reviewer.
- CVPR: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2026)
- IPCAI: Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (2025)
- ISBI: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (2026, 2025)
- IJCARS: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (2025)
- MICCAI: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (2025)
- IGTxImNO: Joint Symposium on Medical Imaging, Image-Guided Therapies, and AI (2025)